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Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1864-07-12

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liiiii 53 'ft , DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITKnATUHK, THE MlAItKET H ANJP GENEHAL INTELLIGENCE. VOL. & , MOUNT VERNON, OIIIO, T UESDAY, JULY 12, 1864. . NO 3d, TUB MOUNT VEHNON BEPIBLICAN. TERMS: For one year (invariably in odvance)$2,00 For six months, 1,00 TERMS OF ADVERTISING. One square, 3 weeks, , 1,00 One square, 3 months, 3,00 One square, 6 months, 4,50 One square, 1 year, ' 6,00 Ono square (changeable monthly) 10,00 Changeable weekly, 15,00 Two squares, 3 weeks, 1,75 Two squares, 6 weeks, 3,25 Two square's, 3 months, , 6,25 Two squares, 6 months, 0,57 Two squares, 1 year, 8,00 Threo squares, 3 weoks, 2,50 Three squares, 6 weeks, 4,50 Three squares, 3 months, 6,00 Three squares, 6 months, 8,00 Three squares, 1 year, 10,00 One-fourth column, chan. quarterly,15,00 One-third " " " 22,00 One-half " " 28,00 One column, changeable quarterly, 60,00 Frim thi Ohio Culllrator. love. They say she was my burband's flame. Long ere I cum", te know it, And that he loved ber very much Symptoms all seemnd to show it. Weill any man of twenty-five, Who never loved a ludy, Reminds me of a willow sprout. Grown where 'tis cool and shady. I know she bos a winning way Indeed, she's quite a beauty; Well, when men worship pretty girls, I think they do their duty. The man whose eyes are closely shut Against the charms of woman, Would never love a darling wife Tis a most truthful omen. What if her lips hit own have pressed? Nothing, sure she's the gainer, Not I the lover; sueh a fact Can only make me vainer. For she's a bonnie, petted girl, At any in the nation, And sure, F rather ae were so, Than lowest of creation. ( When first he talked to me of love 1 . A savnn In its tactics I felt quite lhaukful some ene else Had had his early practice. Now do yoa think that second loves Have cause for dark reflection? Practice improves in every thiug, And love is no exemption. em. .3-0! em! what a wicked free-lover yoa be. En. ; Srmpcrancc. DRUNKENNESS. A LECTURE DELIVERED IN THE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CnURCII, OXFORD,ON V SABBATH EVENING, MARCH 27. BY PROF, SWING, OF MIAMI UNIVERSITY. I wish to speak, to-night, regarding, a great vico. Christianity having in its outset declared its hostility to vico, havinz declared that the pure in heart are blessed, I shall make no apology for speaking on the Sabbath evening against one of tho most powerful enemies Christianity and virtue have ever encountered. The greatness of the evil is apology enough.Intemperance or drunkenness is not only a sin, but it is one of the world's greatest follies. If we could transport ourselves, to-morrow, to India and could witness the dragging of Juggernaut, or could see a few poor mortals performing the hook movement in all solemnity, or could we be put down in Constantinople to see, gathered in a coffee house a group of opium eaters, "whose gesTurers," says a traveler, "are frightful, whose features are flushed, whose eyes have an unnatural brilliancy, but with an expression terribly wild,"' or eould we travel up the Nile and witness the pnrformanoe of the howling Derviscs along its banks, we could at once see the hideousness of our own drunkenness and could estimate its indescribable folly. The drunkard is the opium eater of England and America, be is America's howling Dervis. Folly is shaped by circumstance. Where tho old asoetio philosophy flourished, there is the Dorvis, where the opium plant grows there is the raving eater, where the soil yields the grain in great abundance fotf distilation, there is the common drunkard. The difference is not in the folly, but in the products of tba place. Is it sufficient excuse for intoxication that America is a grain growing country? Do the fields of the West require a sacrifice of life? Is the blood of man required to enrich the soil? So it seems. You and you are drunkards because your land is tho world's grain garden. - FTow humiliating that a rational being should be thus out-generaled by aocident of soil. Many a young man has become a sot, because some friends asked bin to drink. Many a youth has gone staggering and howling all through life and raving down to his grave because .at some social gathering he was. offered wine. This is melanolioly not the offering of wine only, but the accepting of it. This is mind yioldiig to accident. It may be very thoughtless to present wine it is weakness to drink it. It is not often the case that the wine offered is expected to . be drunk. It appears in the name of hospitality, it is beautiful to loofc upon, it bus a delightful fragrance, it has a histor ic charm, a fume and a memory. It wa 9 long used in cemeuting vows and in m.iking good wishes. It comes into, many ' cirolcs therefore, only as a symbol and docs not ask to be coo sumed.'but simply to have its presenco confessed, but its bulk to be let alone. Thus often the cedar the shamrock and thistle adorn the rooms where friends convene. If wo become drunkards, let it not be because some child, some girl, offered us a delicate Trail cup in a draw ing room, nor because Ohio and Indiana are laden with corn and barley and wheat, but rather having thought over the whole matter we prefer the drunkard's fate Let us not be victimized by a drawing-room, nor by the grain fi olds of the West. It may seem improper to dismiss with such light words, the question of. wine drinking. In Italy and France, 'wine is in every body's hand and yet there are no drunkards there. Ought Dot wine to become a beverage in America? iVo. First because there is no moderation 'n the Amrlo-Saxon characl er- It does nothing as a Frenchman or Italian docs the same thiDg. These two characters will take their glass each dny and think of nothing beyond. Their refinement and their whole soul bind them to moderation. But it does not belong to an Englishman to eat without becoming a glutton, nor to Americans to drink without going on to drunkonncss. Will the glass of wine suffico tho American to-day? By no means, for ho drank that much yestarday. To-day he must advance one step. He is truo tohispod-progress not only in the printing of ship j and railroads, but in the quantity and whiskey and beer. And, secondly, tho fact that in America the strong drinks exist along sido the wius in such abundance and cheapness make it almost certain that our progressive citizen will pass from the less to the greater. If any inebriate would form a just estimate of himself, he must gaze upon Chinaman or a Turk raging or stupid with his opium, or upon a Dervis crazy with the tossings of his head. We are se familiar with our own habits, that they do not impress us. They do not strike us as being wonderful. Tho commou inebriate therefore, feels that there is nothing peculiar about him. lie seems to be quite like other people. We must study a foreign language in order to learn the construction of onr own. We are so familiar with out own it docs not roved its principles. Thus the ine briute himself, and the whole community in which he is a common phenomenon, perceives not the strangeness, the monstrous-ness of the spectacle. But transport yourselves to Persia or to the banks of tho Nile and behold thire is our American drunkard. The Der vises join hands and revole slowly or stand swaying to and fro, becoming mor 8 violent by degrees until at length all become frenzied. Then having sword and daggers heated in tho fire, they take these by the heated end" in their hands or lips and hold them till they grow cool. After having well ' beaten and wounded each other, they disperse to medicate their burns and wounds, and having cured them thry meet aqnint In America, we have half a million of these. Go to the suburbs of a Turkish or Chinese city and behold! there is our American drunkard. A score of Chinamen or Turks have spent an hour eating and smoking opium, they are now down in the land of swoons and delirium and fits. Tho passers by kick them from the side-walk or trample upon them to make them worm-liko,-twist out of the way. There is no avoiding the parallel., Our drunkard is a faot. He is our Dervis. He falls to the earth; he slashes his face against pavoments; be murders his neighbor; he drives his innocent children out doors at mid-bight and at midwinter, he beats them before they g3, he beats them' when they come back, his wife trembles at the sound of his footsteps, the whole air rings with his blasphemy. Or if 1. assumes not this form of manifestation, it puts on that of the laughing fool or the quiet lunatic. In our lunatio assylums there are many manifestations of the one irisanity. Some of the inmates are violent, destructive, oruel; some-nre calm, but the whole is melancholy and impressive.., The phenomena of intemperance follows the common law of insanity and surpasses insini ty in guilt and. infamy. To the painful-ness of insanity it adds the odium of suicide. .' . " " .' Of earth's follies and sins the quaffing of distilled drinks is among the greatest. In the number of its victims, in the greatness and variety of the woe a it entails, it perhaps has no superior. This evil in its worst form is not more than five bun-dred years of ago, for though intoxication has been common to all places and times since the days of Noah, to those of Alox apder, yet that, mighty plague which is now so devastating, bhould be considered as having begun its career when man discovered the method of (istilling juices. The thirteenth cectury claims this dis covery Tho ancients indeed became drunkards, but tho number of victims ' cannot we conjecture, compare with modern figures, for whero vinous liquors are consumed, drunkenness can result from only the extravagant use of those dsinks; whereas now it is an easy resi'H, coming from moderate draughts. It is now perfectly easy to become a -foolish, staggering, pitiable sot. The day thereforo, that introduced tho distillation of liquors, introduced the monster drunkenness in all its completeness. It is worthy of remark here that the process of brandy making was discovered by those men whose exploits in "hemis. try have been sorcmatkablo, those seekers for the Elixir of Life. Busy in the search after something that would render every body immortal, they succeeded in finding something that has tho power of making men die long before the ordinary time. But tho man who discoverd this drink did imagine himself to have found tho great good. He says with pride: "It improves the health, lcvives the heart and perpetuates youth.". Perhaps history contains nowhere so gtcat a lie. While fifty thousand are dying yearly from the use of these drinks, while a half ruilliou Americans are living the lives of sots, while three hundred thou sand children are growing up in circumstances fitted to make criminals of the whole vast multitude, no one will be able to seo tho powr of this elixir to revive the heart or perpetuate youth. Our prisons, our poor-houses look to it for their inmates. Our potters-fields ex pect it to fill their graves. Our gallowses look to it for their victims. Our armies explain many defeats by it. Whole regiments have boon cut to pieces by its insane orders. Tho poor children of the street explain their sufferings, their hunger, their cold, they explain their mother's tears, by the one word drunkctmefs. And by this one word are explained the failures of thousands of professional men, their coming short of office, of fame, of usefulness and the fewness of years marked upon theirtomb-stoncs. Where drunkenness goes, goes desolation . Vast and so long enduring! The plague of London satisfied its vengence within the one memorable year. It slew its thousands and then went away, leav-ng business to resume its channels and the heart to forget its sorrow. But the great American plague is never satisfied. It never departs. It has purchased land and has built a house here. There is no discharge in its war. The public heirt has no time to rest its grief. The great earthquake shook Calahvia for three days and then grew as quiet as the hearts of its thirty thousand dead; but the great American monster shakes us from years begining to years endine. Its waves, its shocks, make us tremble all night long. The Temple of Janus was to bo open in time of war closed in time of pence. And in seven hundred years it was shut thrice and for a few months only, but the temple of this modern Moloch has not been closed once in five ocnturirs-Would it might be closed long enough to permit us to see how grand a spectaole a generation of temperate men would present! But as the Bomans forgot what peace was, to we have lost the conception of a sober age. We carry along with us our criminals, our paupers, our orphans, our staggering, blasphemous men, as though they were the most valuable personal effects. Are tbey the nation's household gods ? We have well nigh orgotten. The soldiers who come home from Gettysburg and Vicsburg and all the battle-fields inform ns that the groans of the woundod and dying impressed them but little. Among the suffering the evening meal tasted sweet, and amid tho dying, the well slept soundly. There is a parallel to this, found in the faot that we eat and sleep well, while an imense vice is slaughtering men and women and children. But notwithstanding tho dreadfulness of this monster, I believe it vulnerable and 'even now wounded. - But it cannot be left to the treatment of civil law, it eannot be left to the care of legislators, for the simple reason that in this eountry whore la ws are the result of popular votes, reform must come before the law. The laws of our land do not originate progress, they come after the work has been more than half accomplished. The people are reformed first, they then .eleot temperance men to office, and then these legislators pass tho law. Jloneo it it in vain to wait for legislators. Tho legislatures are waiting for you. The church must treat interaperunco, as a vico. If God declares that no druokard shall inherit the kingdom of Heaven, the church is bound to stand between men iind perdition and repeat the dreadful dticree. There are some facts to encourage ef fort. The march of drunkenoe is has not quite been paralled with the m.arch of population and civilization. Th ere is in deed more distilled liquor consumed now in our country than ever before, .' but so there is of flour and meat. Persons now live who have watched our population pass from ten millions to thirty. The great monster has not quite kept step. This is cheering. By Christianity and education in general the great consumer has also resigned a part of his field of death and has withdrawn to districts and individuals enjoying the least culture, mental and religions, to those who are yet in tho darkness which they brought from Britain or Europe, or to those who belong to the lowest American life. Thus by its tendency to retreat be Tore education it pointe out ' the possibility and method of its own death. One ofthefirst stops toward checking n pesti Ienc9 is to discover what condition of lifi'i it prefers. It must have been a dark prospect' which spread out before tho fi rst temper ance reformers in the early part of this century, when the educated c! isses clung to these terrible drinks with t heir whole heart. The cup of poison had' its place on tho sitting room Btand, alon;; with the family Bible. Deacons in chu rch.es ran their fine distilleries. And what little they paid their pastor or put ' into tne contribution box came thus. ' The advantage of the preset it lies in tho fact that intomperance, ortlieiegular use of strong drinks, is not resectable. It is confessed to be a folly, an i adecency and a sin. Deacons do not distill it; church members who use it to' any con-siderable'extentare either the nslics of a former generation, or are only nominal members of Zion. They do not ; pray at prayermecting's. They are the e iclesias-ticalioiioraWe vicmber The creature is becoming outlawed. It was once said that intemperance Bwept away tho loftiest geniuses. It took from our bar and leg islative halls and from our colleges the brightest the most promising characters. If intemperance ever was so cruel it has became greatly changed, for now, for the most part, it spares great minds and takes from bar and Congress and coileges the weakest, the most unpromising. Horace Mann, who spent all the latter half of his life among young men of colleges, speaks thus: "The least sensible, the least intellectual young men furnish our f tock of drunkards. Where the ani mal is stronger than the intellectual , na ture there intemperance finds its most willing victim." Prof. Moffet of Princeton College speaks upo n this question, as follows. "It is an ami ablo weakness oi human npture to at- trib ute to men who ruin themselves credit for great minds. All first-class scholars of idioni I now know any think are with one or two exceptions perfeotly temperate met;. The intemperate are generally below mediocrity, aud here I find intern-pera nco and poor scholarship bound to gether." President Woolscy, of Yale Collego, givei i his views as follows: "I havo cer- tainly never noticed any mental superior ity ini students who have given theraselvos much to drink. I have found that the fatal facility of obeying a ruinous aypetite is more apt to accompany a weak mind than v. strong ono. These inebriates who have c ome under my notice here have feeble, irresolute characters, with talents of not a high order." . Thus, we preceive that if intetr.pcrance ever did prefer the most promising minds it has been compelled to abandon those victims and be content with, humbler hearts and souls. , I think that of the American scholars now living and known to community all may be styled temperance men. The most of them are hard working reformers It is possible that the former generations the most gifted young men ''went down along with the common crowd; but this was because intemperance did not then partake of the nature of vie and a folly. When a star af a delusion is in the as cendent then scholars and kings worship it, but when it passes tho tenith these worshipers turn away their face from its decline. Tne glory of ooeage is the next age's shame. - When it was common to burn heretics, kings and queens went out to the spectaclo It is said John Calvin helped put to death Servetus. This is no doubt true.' But what genins did in one age only fools may do in the next Sir Mtthew Hale sentenced to death poor women supposing them to be witches but what genius did then, only a lunatio would do now. Thus the world goes. It sometimes takes genius a hundred years to find out the nature and extent of a given delusion, but the weak and ordina ry mind must add another hundred years to the time of probation. It often hap pens that the sober declaration of one age oonvulse the generations afterward with long and loud laughter. St. Bernard would eat nothing but bread and milk, save ou Sundays he cheered himself with a leaf of oabbage. The great Pascal tried always to swallow his food without tasting it, thinking it a weakness to care about so small a matter as taste. Roger Bacon has left us somo wiso and valuable works, but in one of them he speaks of a man who prolonged life to evoral hundred years by oiling his body; and lie informs us that the birds called kingfishers have power to postpone the storms of Autumn. Thus the child of to-day may laugh at the philosopher of yesterday. Thus with intemperance. It may have flourished insplender, but time has exposed its ab surdity and folly. Anacreon may have thoughc that without wine nothing good can be written, and the elegnnt Addison may have spent his evening at Button's coffee-house: but the present age remem bers Bernard's cabbage leaf, and Baeon's kingfishers, and Calvin's poor heretic, and holds the man as destitute of brains who imitates either one of the absurdities If intemperance were not so destitute of lifo and honor and happiness, the think ing men of the present would rooeive it from the past with broad laughter along with other outrages against sonse. But grotesque and senseless as it is, we must receive it with tears. It goes not harm lessly down the stream of time,but marks its pathway with desolation. If it be tjuo that tho desolation of the army, when that shall come, is destine0" to throw into society a new power in fa vor of the great vice, it is plainly the duty of Christians and moralists to pre pare themselves against this event, by rekindling their enthusiasm in behalf of lives of temperance and virtue, by re forming their own daily life, by reviving the old arguments, and by turning against tho appalling evil the power or organiza tions, of rostrum, of pulpit, and of press. Thousands of the upper class can be pre served frooifalling simply by that effort of Christians and moralists which shall keep drunkenness down among the infamies; and thousands ef the poorer class can be saved by that education and Chris tianity which shall make them fear its sin and feel ashamed of its poverty and degradation. CATECHISM. What lady is good to eat? Sal Ladd. What lady is good to eat with her? Olive Oil. What lady is made to carry burdens? EllaFant. What lady preaches in the pulpit? Minnie Stir. What lady has to fight Indians? Emma Grant. What lady helps her? Minnie Rifle What lady does evory body desire? Ann U. Ity. What lady is acquainted with surgery? Ann Atomist. What lady lived in Noah's time? Ann T. Diluvian. ; What lady is fond of debate? Polly Tibliuo. What Jidy votes? Delia Gate. What lady paints portraits? Minnie A. Choor. What lady .paints eomio ones? Carrie K. Choor. What lady is fond of giving? Jennie Rossi ty. What lady is much talked of now? Amelia Ration. What lady is used to war? Milly Tairy. What ladies aro voracious? Annie Candor and Allie Gaiter. Amaalug Proverbs About Women. As the good man saith, so say we; but as the the good woman saith, so it must be. A woman and a grayhound must be small in the waist. A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wifo well willed. All women ere good for something or good for nothing. A virtuous woman, though ugly, is the ornament of the bouse. An obedient wife commands hor hus band. A man of straw is worth a woman of gold. A woman's work is never at an end. A good wife is the workmanship of a good hnsband. When the good man's from home, the good wife's table is soon spread. A man's best fortune or his worst- is a T7ife. All are good las&u; but whsra come the ill wives frae? - A woman conceals whatshe knows not. A lass that has many wooers oft lares the worst. ' ' ' ' ' Fools are wise mo a in the affairs of women. t Every man can tame a shrew but he that has her. Ladies will sooner pardon want of sense than want of manners. You may know a foolish woman by her finery. Beauty will buy no beef. Choose a wife rather by your ear, than your eye. Far-fetched, atd dear bought is good for the ladies. The rich widow cries with one eye and weeps with the other. . . She that is born a beauty is half married. She that hath an ill husband shows it in her dress. From thel42d O.N.G. 7 Miles from Petersburg, 1 June 23. J Dear Loved Ones: I have no doubt but you are getting anxious to hear from us, we are stationed about 7 miles from the city, away from any danger, the Reg't is out on fatiguo duty, Campbell and Erastus is with them, they are well. I did not go, did not feel very well, and as I m a drummer they can't make me work, so I concluded I would stay and take care of things in camp, there are very few old troops here, they are sent to the front, it was reported here that our troops could shell the city, so it wont be long until away goes Richmond. Yesterday Old Abe and Gen. Butler passed through hero. Abe is an honest looking fellow, he rode along the lines with his hat off, while the sue was beaming upon him, but it did not effect him, while Butler looked a lit tle drowsy. We have now good rations, we draw soft bread which is an improve' ment on hard tack, we have rice, coffee, sugar, meat and hominy and we draw fresh beef omo a week, so we live pretty well if we are soldiers. A soldier's life is not by any means an easy one, although we have got along well, we had some marching but not very much, and I think wo won't have much more, but we have ,madc up our minds to take it as it comes and hope and pray for the best, I Lave always kept up my spirits so has Camp. bell. While I am fixed as I am now, 1 improve tho timo by reading my Bible, as I consider it the best treasure I have with me. Morning and Night I never fail to pray to our Father in Heaven to bless us and piotect us and restore us to you again at the appointed time. Hoping this may find you all well, I close and remain. Your Dear Son, Isaac Errett. P. S. Our brigade which is composed of five Reg't 100 day men are to be stationed 2 miles below here where there is plenty good water and plenty of fish. Won't we live. I. E. Co. C. 142d Reg't O. N. G. 2d Brig, ado, 3d Division, 10th Army Corpc, But-tler'i Department, Bermuda Hundred, Va. Near Point of Rocks, ) June 25. ( My Dear Wife: We have been com pelled for four days to omit writing, for on Tuesday we were ordered to prepare two days rations for a march wa knew not where, but soon found out it was to go down River 5 miles to build a fort in sight of the enemy, we built it, and now we are back to the old quarters, the Reg't came back on Thursday, I came back on Friday, being left in oharge with some sick men in Quartermaster's Department, Campbell also staid not because he was sick; but to get a chance to ride and procure a supply of raspberries and mulberries which were plenty and quite a fine desert to military grub. The weather here is exeessively hot aud dry, we have not been wot since we eaaio. I wish it would rain, I would be willing to take a duck-ing, to be relieved from the dust, for when the Reg't moves we are completely eneveloped in dust and look as if we had rolled in the road, but sueh is the soldier's life, will not complain one word so long as we get along as we have done since we came here. The Reg't has not lost a man atlcast tomy knowledge, some wore left at Fort Lyon, we have not heard from them. Some few here are sick, one the Dr. thought would die last night but he was alive this morning. His Lame is Kelly. Many of the boys as also myself are complaining a little, bat it is only fatigue and hot weather. The boys hero have been put through until they are most wor e out but they aay they can stand it eighty days moro, they are not put forward to fight, neither is their any reasonable probability that they will, we are garrisoning the works here. Thero are but very few troops here nowbut 5 Reg't of 100 day men; the other troops were taken to help Grant. What are Grant s plans and what is he doing none knows; , He is the only man that seems to have the facul;y of keeping his plans to himself", which ho oV-m h mirubly. Wa are now off duty durin;; the d.y but sleep in the rifle-pits at n;(-Lt, w?u!d just as leave lay there as any other place. We don't want to be surprised by tba reb, they are only one mile ia front, and they and our pickets havo some fighting every day, bat with but little damage; none-of the boys are an picket this week. There is heavy firing! by the gunboatr every night. On Thursday they fired every 15 minutes, not more than J of a mile from us, the noise does not disturb us, we are fast becoming soldiers, can sleep anywhere aad under all circum stances, can eat anything be it clean or dirty when on a march, if we halt it don't matter where it is the hoys tumble (town and in a few momenta are sound asleep, am almost sick for a letter for the Reg't has had no mail since leavit g Fort Lyon. It was reported that our mail was at City Point, we sent after it, every one is wish iug for letters, all are anxious to hear from home,they all keeping writing,nevertheles' Our fare has been rather harifon account of so ma eh moving. Many ot the boya complain of not having enough to eatf, which has been the fact, the loldifer'a life is a hard one and full of dangers and would you behold the quintessance of heroism, witness the conduct of the soU diers in the arduous campaign now going' on here and in Georgia. Those at home surrounded with comforts, cannot have the most faint realization of what it cost to be a soldier, and thosa soldiers who have become veterans should be support ed in comparative case by a grateful people, for surely there lot is a hard one, to allow the families of soldiers to suffer, as many have done all over our land, by those at home who are rolling in luxury and case is one of tho most outrageous stains on the American character and should be avenged by penury and want, I would rather be a toad and live upon tho foul air of a dungeon, than stand before the defenders of onr coun- irj as some ao-witn tneir ceUers well filled, while many a poor widow ia snfff ring for daily bread. Oh shame on such false patriotism. Jane ?5th, P. M. Our mail has come and such a lot of.-letters every one getting from one to a dozen. Don't allow yourself any trouble with tho slang of the butternuts, let them say what they will we will be home punctually at the expiration of tho 100 days when we will attend to them, hoping this will find you all well. I remain yours affectionately, , E. B. CAKE. Co. K. 142d Reg't O. N. G. Address, 2d Brigade, 3d Division, 10th Army Corps, Butler's Department, Ber- muda Hundred, Va. Conoilatory Manners. In families well ordered there is always one firm . sweot temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The essence of all fine breeding is in the gift otconcUiation. A man who possesses every other title to our rospeot except that of courtesy, ia in danger of forfeiting them all.- A rude manner renders its owner always liable to affront. He is never without dignity who avoids wounding the dignity of oth ers. Do all in your power to teach your children self-government. If a child i wionato, teach him by gentleness to curb hU'temper. If he is sulky charm him out by frank, good humor. If in dolent acoustom him to perform onerous duties with alacrity. If pride comes in to make obedience reluotant, subdue him by counsel or discipline. In sborgiv your children the habit of overcoming their besetting sins. BRIGHT AND CLOOIHY HOCBSV Ah 1 this beautiful world, I know not what to think of it. Sometimes it is all sunshine and glad ness, and heaven itself is not far off; and then changes suddenly, and is dark and sorrowful, and the clouds shut ont tho day. I0 the Eves of the saddest of us there aro bright days. Then come the gloomy hoars, when the fire will neither burn in our hearth, and all without and within is cold and dAk, , Every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oft times they call ft man cold when ho is onlj sad. Goodness of natnre is of all virtues and . dignities of the mind tho greatest, being the oharaoterof the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievons, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin. ' An humblt spire, pointing heavenward from an obscarej church speaks of man' nature, man's alignity, man's destiny, more eloquent than all the columns and arches of Grcce and Rome, the tuau soleums of Asto, or the pyramids of Egypt. ChannKj.f 0A HtJ'o follow, not more t'Ti in f,-: yoars of ag'i hearing a gontl'r;n i fothtr's ta!a make use of t'.a f r line, "An'Mnrst mu is tln i" ' 1 : of God," he! w it v 'i ' ' mother ws better a; p 3 .', .', ever tra-1.

liiiii 53 'ft , DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITKnATUHK, THE MlAItKET H ANJP GENEHAL INTELLIGENCE. VOL. & , MOUNT VERNON, OIIIO, T UESDAY, JULY 12, 1864. . NO 3d, TUB MOUNT VEHNON BEPIBLICAN. TERMS: For one year (invariably in odvance)$2,00 For six months, 1,00 TERMS OF ADVERTISING. One square, 3 weeks, , 1,00 One square, 3 months, 3,00 One square, 6 months, 4,50 One square, 1 year, ' 6,00 Ono square (changeable monthly) 10,00 Changeable weekly, 15,00 Two squares, 3 weeks, 1,75 Two squares, 6 weeks, 3,25 Two square's, 3 months, , 6,25 Two squares, 6 months, 0,57 Two squares, 1 year, 8,00 Threo squares, 3 weoks, 2,50 Three squares, 6 weeks, 4,50 Three squares, 3 months, 6,00 Three squares, 6 months, 8,00 Three squares, 1 year, 10,00 One-fourth column, chan. quarterly,15,00 One-third " " " 22,00 One-half " " 28,00 One column, changeable quarterly, 60,00 Frim thi Ohio Culllrator. love. They say she was my burband's flame. Long ere I cum", te know it, And that he loved ber very much Symptoms all seemnd to show it. Weill any man of twenty-five, Who never loved a ludy, Reminds me of a willow sprout. Grown where 'tis cool and shady. I know she bos a winning way Indeed, she's quite a beauty; Well, when men worship pretty girls, I think they do their duty. The man whose eyes are closely shut Against the charms of woman, Would never love a darling wife Tis a most truthful omen. What if her lips hit own have pressed? Nothing, sure she's the gainer, Not I the lover; sueh a fact Can only make me vainer. For she's a bonnie, petted girl, At any in the nation, And sure, F rather ae were so, Than lowest of creation. ( When first he talked to me of love 1 . A savnn In its tactics I felt quite lhaukful some ene else Had had his early practice. Now do yoa think that second loves Have cause for dark reflection? Practice improves in every thiug, And love is no exemption. em. .3-0! em! what a wicked free-lover yoa be. En. ; Srmpcrancc. DRUNKENNESS. A LECTURE DELIVERED IN THE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CnURCII, OXFORD,ON V SABBATH EVENING, MARCH 27. BY PROF, SWING, OF MIAMI UNIVERSITY. I wish to speak, to-night, regarding, a great vico. Christianity having in its outset declared its hostility to vico, havinz declared that the pure in heart are blessed, I shall make no apology for speaking on the Sabbath evening against one of tho most powerful enemies Christianity and virtue have ever encountered. The greatness of the evil is apology enough.Intemperance or drunkenness is not only a sin, but it is one of the world's greatest follies. If we could transport ourselves, to-morrow, to India and could witness the dragging of Juggernaut, or could see a few poor mortals performing the hook movement in all solemnity, or could we be put down in Constantinople to see, gathered in a coffee house a group of opium eaters, "whose gesTurers," says a traveler, "are frightful, whose features are flushed, whose eyes have an unnatural brilliancy, but with an expression terribly wild,"' or eould we travel up the Nile and witness the pnrformanoe of the howling Derviscs along its banks, we could at once see the hideousness of our own drunkenness and could estimate its indescribable folly. The drunkard is the opium eater of England and America, be is America's howling Dervis. Folly is shaped by circumstance. Where tho old asoetio philosophy flourished, there is the Dorvis, where the opium plant grows there is the raving eater, where the soil yields the grain in great abundance fotf distilation, there is the common drunkard. The difference is not in the folly, but in the products of tba place. Is it sufficient excuse for intoxication that America is a grain growing country? Do the fields of the West require a sacrifice of life? Is the blood of man required to enrich the soil? So it seems. You and you are drunkards because your land is tho world's grain garden. - FTow humiliating that a rational being should be thus out-generaled by aocident of soil. Many a young man has become a sot, because some friends asked bin to drink. Many a youth has gone staggering and howling all through life and raving down to his grave because .at some social gathering he was. offered wine. This is melanolioly not the offering of wine only, but the accepting of it. This is mind yioldiig to accident. It may be very thoughtless to present wine it is weakness to drink it. It is not often the case that the wine offered is expected to . be drunk. It appears in the name of hospitality, it is beautiful to loofc upon, it bus a delightful fragrance, it has a histor ic charm, a fume and a memory. It wa 9 long used in cemeuting vows and in m.iking good wishes. It comes into, many ' cirolcs therefore, only as a symbol and docs not ask to be coo sumed.'but simply to have its presenco confessed, but its bulk to be let alone. Thus often the cedar the shamrock and thistle adorn the rooms where friends convene. If wo become drunkards, let it not be because some child, some girl, offered us a delicate Trail cup in a draw ing room, nor because Ohio and Indiana are laden with corn and barley and wheat, but rather having thought over the whole matter we prefer the drunkard's fate Let us not be victimized by a drawing-room, nor by the grain fi olds of the West. It may seem improper to dismiss with such light words, the question of. wine drinking. In Italy and France, 'wine is in every body's hand and yet there are no drunkards there. Ought Dot wine to become a beverage in America? iVo. First because there is no moderation 'n the Amrlo-Saxon characl er- It does nothing as a Frenchman or Italian docs the same thiDg. These two characters will take their glass each dny and think of nothing beyond. Their refinement and their whole soul bind them to moderation. But it does not belong to an Englishman to eat without becoming a glutton, nor to Americans to drink without going on to drunkonncss. Will the glass of wine suffico tho American to-day? By no means, for ho drank that much yestarday. To-day he must advance one step. He is truo tohispod-progress not only in the printing of ship j and railroads, but in the quantity and whiskey and beer. And, secondly, tho fact that in America the strong drinks exist along sido the wius in such abundance and cheapness make it almost certain that our progressive citizen will pass from the less to the greater. If any inebriate would form a just estimate of himself, he must gaze upon Chinaman or a Turk raging or stupid with his opium, or upon a Dervis crazy with the tossings of his head. We are se familiar with our own habits, that they do not impress us. They do not strike us as being wonderful. Tho commou inebriate therefore, feels that there is nothing peculiar about him. lie seems to be quite like other people. We must study a foreign language in order to learn the construction of onr own. We are so familiar with out own it docs not roved its principles. Thus the ine briute himself, and the whole community in which he is a common phenomenon, perceives not the strangeness, the monstrous-ness of the spectacle. But transport yourselves to Persia or to the banks of tho Nile and behold thire is our American drunkard. The Der vises join hands and revole slowly or stand swaying to and fro, becoming mor 8 violent by degrees until at length all become frenzied. Then having sword and daggers heated in tho fire, they take these by the heated end" in their hands or lips and hold them till they grow cool. After having well ' beaten and wounded each other, they disperse to medicate their burns and wounds, and having cured them thry meet aqnint In America, we have half a million of these. Go to the suburbs of a Turkish or Chinese city and behold! there is our American drunkard. A score of Chinamen or Turks have spent an hour eating and smoking opium, they are now down in the land of swoons and delirium and fits. Tho passers by kick them from the side-walk or trample upon them to make them worm-liko,-twist out of the way. There is no avoiding the parallel., Our drunkard is a faot. He is our Dervis. He falls to the earth; he slashes his face against pavoments; be murders his neighbor; he drives his innocent children out doors at mid-bight and at midwinter, he beats them before they g3, he beats them' when they come back, his wife trembles at the sound of his footsteps, the whole air rings with his blasphemy. Or if 1. assumes not this form of manifestation, it puts on that of the laughing fool or the quiet lunatic. In our lunatio assylums there are many manifestations of the one irisanity. Some of the inmates are violent, destructive, oruel; some-nre calm, but the whole is melancholy and impressive.., The phenomena of intemperance follows the common law of insanity and surpasses insini ty in guilt and. infamy. To the painful-ness of insanity it adds the odium of suicide. .' . " " .' Of earth's follies and sins the quaffing of distilled drinks is among the greatest. In the number of its victims, in the greatness and variety of the woe a it entails, it perhaps has no superior. This evil in its worst form is not more than five bun-dred years of ago, for though intoxication has been common to all places and times since the days of Noah, to those of Alox apder, yet that, mighty plague which is now so devastating, bhould be considered as having begun its career when man discovered the method of (istilling juices. The thirteenth cectury claims this dis covery Tho ancients indeed became drunkards, but tho number of victims ' cannot we conjecture, compare with modern figures, for whero vinous liquors are consumed, drunkenness can result from only the extravagant use of those dsinks; whereas now it is an easy resi'H, coming from moderate draughts. It is now perfectly easy to become a -foolish, staggering, pitiable sot. The day thereforo, that introduced tho distillation of liquors, introduced the monster drunkenness in all its completeness. It is worthy of remark here that the process of brandy making was discovered by those men whose exploits in "hemis. try have been sorcmatkablo, those seekers for the Elixir of Life. Busy in the search after something that would render every body immortal, they succeeded in finding something that has tho power of making men die long before the ordinary time. But tho man who discoverd this drink did imagine himself to have found tho great good. He says with pride: "It improves the health, lcvives the heart and perpetuates youth.". Perhaps history contains nowhere so gtcat a lie. While fifty thousand are dying yearly from the use of these drinks, while a half ruilliou Americans are living the lives of sots, while three hundred thou sand children are growing up in circumstances fitted to make criminals of the whole vast multitude, no one will be able to seo tho powr of this elixir to revive the heart or perpetuate youth. Our prisons, our poor-houses look to it for their inmates. Our potters-fields ex pect it to fill their graves. Our gallowses look to it for their victims. Our armies explain many defeats by it. Whole regiments have boon cut to pieces by its insane orders. Tho poor children of the street explain their sufferings, their hunger, their cold, they explain their mother's tears, by the one word drunkctmefs. And by this one word are explained the failures of thousands of professional men, their coming short of office, of fame, of usefulness and the fewness of years marked upon theirtomb-stoncs. Where drunkenness goes, goes desolation . Vast and so long enduring! The plague of London satisfied its vengence within the one memorable year. It slew its thousands and then went away, leav-ng business to resume its channels and the heart to forget its sorrow. But the great American plague is never satisfied. It never departs. It has purchased land and has built a house here. There is no discharge in its war. The public heirt has no time to rest its grief. The great earthquake shook Calahvia for three days and then grew as quiet as the hearts of its thirty thousand dead; but the great American monster shakes us from years begining to years endine. Its waves, its shocks, make us tremble all night long. The Temple of Janus was to bo open in time of war closed in time of pence. And in seven hundred years it was shut thrice and for a few months only, but the temple of this modern Moloch has not been closed once in five ocnturirs-Would it might be closed long enough to permit us to see how grand a spectaole a generation of temperate men would present! But as the Bomans forgot what peace was, to we have lost the conception of a sober age. We carry along with us our criminals, our paupers, our orphans, our staggering, blasphemous men, as though they were the most valuable personal effects. Are tbey the nation's household gods ? We have well nigh orgotten. The soldiers who come home from Gettysburg and Vicsburg and all the battle-fields inform ns that the groans of the woundod and dying impressed them but little. Among the suffering the evening meal tasted sweet, and amid tho dying, the well slept soundly. There is a parallel to this, found in the faot that we eat and sleep well, while an imense vice is slaughtering men and women and children. But notwithstanding tho dreadfulness of this monster, I believe it vulnerable and 'even now wounded. - But it cannot be left to the treatment of civil law, it eannot be left to the care of legislators, for the simple reason that in this eountry whore la ws are the result of popular votes, reform must come before the law. The laws of our land do not originate progress, they come after the work has been more than half accomplished. The people are reformed first, they then .eleot temperance men to office, and then these legislators pass tho law. Jloneo it it in vain to wait for legislators. Tho legislatures are waiting for you. The church must treat interaperunco, as a vico. If God declares that no druokard shall inherit the kingdom of Heaven, the church is bound to stand between men iind perdition and repeat the dreadful dticree. There are some facts to encourage ef fort. The march of drunkenoe is has not quite been paralled with the m.arch of population and civilization. Th ere is in deed more distilled liquor consumed now in our country than ever before, .' but so there is of flour and meat. Persons now live who have watched our population pass from ten millions to thirty. The great monster has not quite kept step. This is cheering. By Christianity and education in general the great consumer has also resigned a part of his field of death and has withdrawn to districts and individuals enjoying the least culture, mental and religions, to those who are yet in tho darkness which they brought from Britain or Europe, or to those who belong to the lowest American life. Thus by its tendency to retreat be Tore education it pointe out ' the possibility and method of its own death. One ofthefirst stops toward checking n pesti Ienc9 is to discover what condition of lifi'i it prefers. It must have been a dark prospect' which spread out before tho fi rst temper ance reformers in the early part of this century, when the educated c! isses clung to these terrible drinks with t heir whole heart. The cup of poison had' its place on tho sitting room Btand, alon;; with the family Bible. Deacons in chu rch.es ran their fine distilleries. And what little they paid their pastor or put ' into tne contribution box came thus. ' The advantage of the preset it lies in tho fact that intomperance, ortlieiegular use of strong drinks, is not resectable. It is confessed to be a folly, an i adecency and a sin. Deacons do not distill it; church members who use it to' any con-siderable'extentare either the nslics of a former generation, or are only nominal members of Zion. They do not ; pray at prayermecting's. They are the e iclesias-ticalioiioraWe vicmber The creature is becoming outlawed. It was once said that intemperance Bwept away tho loftiest geniuses. It took from our bar and leg islative halls and from our colleges the brightest the most promising characters. If intemperance ever was so cruel it has became greatly changed, for now, for the most part, it spares great minds and takes from bar and Congress and coileges the weakest, the most unpromising. Horace Mann, who spent all the latter half of his life among young men of colleges, speaks thus: "The least sensible, the least intellectual young men furnish our f tock of drunkards. Where the ani mal is stronger than the intellectual , na ture there intemperance finds its most willing victim." Prof. Moffet of Princeton College speaks upo n this question, as follows. "It is an ami ablo weakness oi human npture to at- trib ute to men who ruin themselves credit for great minds. All first-class scholars of idioni I now know any think are with one or two exceptions perfeotly temperate met;. The intemperate are generally below mediocrity, aud here I find intern-pera nco and poor scholarship bound to gether." President Woolscy, of Yale Collego, givei i his views as follows: "I havo cer- tainly never noticed any mental superior ity ini students who have given theraselvos much to drink. I have found that the fatal facility of obeying a ruinous aypetite is more apt to accompany a weak mind than v. strong ono. These inebriates who have c ome under my notice here have feeble, irresolute characters, with talents of not a high order." . Thus, we preceive that if intetr.pcrance ever did prefer the most promising minds it has been compelled to abandon those victims and be content with, humbler hearts and souls. , I think that of the American scholars now living and known to community all may be styled temperance men. The most of them are hard working reformers It is possible that the former generations the most gifted young men ''went down along with the common crowd; but this was because intemperance did not then partake of the nature of vie and a folly. When a star af a delusion is in the as cendent then scholars and kings worship it, but when it passes tho tenith these worshipers turn away their face from its decline. Tne glory of ooeage is the next age's shame. - When it was common to burn heretics, kings and queens went out to the spectaclo It is said John Calvin helped put to death Servetus. This is no doubt true.' But what genins did in one age only fools may do in the next Sir Mtthew Hale sentenced to death poor women supposing them to be witches but what genius did then, only a lunatio would do now. Thus the world goes. It sometimes takes genius a hundred years to find out the nature and extent of a given delusion, but the weak and ordina ry mind must add another hundred years to the time of probation. It often hap pens that the sober declaration of one age oonvulse the generations afterward with long and loud laughter. St. Bernard would eat nothing but bread and milk, save ou Sundays he cheered himself with a leaf of oabbage. The great Pascal tried always to swallow his food without tasting it, thinking it a weakness to care about so small a matter as taste. Roger Bacon has left us somo wiso and valuable works, but in one of them he speaks of a man who prolonged life to evoral hundred years by oiling his body; and lie informs us that the birds called kingfishers have power to postpone the storms of Autumn. Thus the child of to-day may laugh at the philosopher of yesterday. Thus with intemperance. It may have flourished insplender, but time has exposed its ab surdity and folly. Anacreon may have thoughc that without wine nothing good can be written, and the elegnnt Addison may have spent his evening at Button's coffee-house: but the present age remem bers Bernard's cabbage leaf, and Baeon's kingfishers, and Calvin's poor heretic, and holds the man as destitute of brains who imitates either one of the absurdities If intemperance were not so destitute of lifo and honor and happiness, the think ing men of the present would rooeive it from the past with broad laughter along with other outrages against sonse. But grotesque and senseless as it is, we must receive it with tears. It goes not harm lessly down the stream of time,but marks its pathway with desolation. If it be tjuo that tho desolation of the army, when that shall come, is destine0" to throw into society a new power in fa vor of the great vice, it is plainly the duty of Christians and moralists to pre pare themselves against this event, by rekindling their enthusiasm in behalf of lives of temperance and virtue, by re forming their own daily life, by reviving the old arguments, and by turning against tho appalling evil the power or organiza tions, of rostrum, of pulpit, and of press. Thousands of the upper class can be pre served frooifalling simply by that effort of Christians and moralists which shall keep drunkenness down among the infamies; and thousands ef the poorer class can be saved by that education and Chris tianity which shall make them fear its sin and feel ashamed of its poverty and degradation. CATECHISM. What lady is good to eat? Sal Ladd. What lady is good to eat with her? Olive Oil. What lady is made to carry burdens? EllaFant. What lady preaches in the pulpit? Minnie Stir. What lady has to fight Indians? Emma Grant. What lady helps her? Minnie Rifle What lady does evory body desire? Ann U. Ity. What lady is acquainted with surgery? Ann Atomist. What lady lived in Noah's time? Ann T. Diluvian. ; What lady is fond of debate? Polly Tibliuo. What Jidy votes? Delia Gate. What lady paints portraits? Minnie A. Choor. What lady .paints eomio ones? Carrie K. Choor. What lady is fond of giving? Jennie Rossi ty. What lady is much talked of now? Amelia Ration. What lady is used to war? Milly Tairy. What ladies aro voracious? Annie Candor and Allie Gaiter. Amaalug Proverbs About Women. As the good man saith, so say we; but as the the good woman saith, so it must be. A woman and a grayhound must be small in the waist. A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wifo well willed. All women ere good for something or good for nothing. A virtuous woman, though ugly, is the ornament of the bouse. An obedient wife commands hor hus band. A man of straw is worth a woman of gold. A woman's work is never at an end. A good wife is the workmanship of a good hnsband. When the good man's from home, the good wife's table is soon spread. A man's best fortune or his worst- is a T7ife. All are good las&u; but whsra come the ill wives frae? - A woman conceals whatshe knows not. A lass that has many wooers oft lares the worst. ' ' ' ' ' Fools are wise mo a in the affairs of women. t Every man can tame a shrew but he that has her. Ladies will sooner pardon want of sense than want of manners. You may know a foolish woman by her finery. Beauty will buy no beef. Choose a wife rather by your ear, than your eye. Far-fetched, atd dear bought is good for the ladies. The rich widow cries with one eye and weeps with the other. . . She that is born a beauty is half married. She that hath an ill husband shows it in her dress. From thel42d O.N.G. 7 Miles from Petersburg, 1 June 23. J Dear Loved Ones: I have no doubt but you are getting anxious to hear from us, we are stationed about 7 miles from the city, away from any danger, the Reg't is out on fatiguo duty, Campbell and Erastus is with them, they are well. I did not go, did not feel very well, and as I m a drummer they can't make me work, so I concluded I would stay and take care of things in camp, there are very few old troops here, they are sent to the front, it was reported here that our troops could shell the city, so it wont be long until away goes Richmond. Yesterday Old Abe and Gen. Butler passed through hero. Abe is an honest looking fellow, he rode along the lines with his hat off, while the sue was beaming upon him, but it did not effect him, while Butler looked a lit tle drowsy. We have now good rations, we draw soft bread which is an improve' ment on hard tack, we have rice, coffee, sugar, meat and hominy and we draw fresh beef omo a week, so we live pretty well if we are soldiers. A soldier's life is not by any means an easy one, although we have got along well, we had some marching but not very much, and I think wo won't have much more, but we have ,madc up our minds to take it as it comes and hope and pray for the best, I Lave always kept up my spirits so has Camp. bell. While I am fixed as I am now, 1 improve tho timo by reading my Bible, as I consider it the best treasure I have with me. Morning and Night I never fail to pray to our Father in Heaven to bless us and piotect us and restore us to you again at the appointed time. Hoping this may find you all well, I close and remain. Your Dear Son, Isaac Errett. P. S. Our brigade which is composed of five Reg't 100 day men are to be stationed 2 miles below here where there is plenty good water and plenty of fish. Won't we live. I. E. Co. C. 142d Reg't O. N. G. 2d Brig, ado, 3d Division, 10th Army Corpc, But-tler'i Department, Bermuda Hundred, Va. Near Point of Rocks, ) June 25. ( My Dear Wife: We have been com pelled for four days to omit writing, for on Tuesday we were ordered to prepare two days rations for a march wa knew not where, but soon found out it was to go down River 5 miles to build a fort in sight of the enemy, we built it, and now we are back to the old quarters, the Reg't came back on Thursday, I came back on Friday, being left in oharge with some sick men in Quartermaster's Department, Campbell also staid not because he was sick; but to get a chance to ride and procure a supply of raspberries and mulberries which were plenty and quite a fine desert to military grub. The weather here is exeessively hot aud dry, we have not been wot since we eaaio. I wish it would rain, I would be willing to take a duck-ing, to be relieved from the dust, for when the Reg't moves we are completely eneveloped in dust and look as if we had rolled in the road, but sueh is the soldier's life, will not complain one word so long as we get along as we have done since we came here. The Reg't has not lost a man atlcast tomy knowledge, some wore left at Fort Lyon, we have not heard from them. Some few here are sick, one the Dr. thought would die last night but he was alive this morning. His Lame is Kelly. Many of the boys as also myself are complaining a little, bat it is only fatigue and hot weather. The boys hero have been put through until they are most wor e out but they aay they can stand it eighty days moro, they are not put forward to fight, neither is their any reasonable probability that they will, we are garrisoning the works here. Thero are but very few troops here nowbut 5 Reg't of 100 day men; the other troops were taken to help Grant. What are Grant s plans and what is he doing none knows; , He is the only man that seems to have the facul;y of keeping his plans to himself", which ho oV-m h mirubly. Wa are now off duty durin;; the d.y but sleep in the rifle-pits at n;(-Lt, w?u!d just as leave lay there as any other place. We don't want to be surprised by tba reb, they are only one mile ia front, and they and our pickets havo some fighting every day, bat with but little damage; none-of the boys are an picket this week. There is heavy firing! by the gunboatr every night. On Thursday they fired every 15 minutes, not more than J of a mile from us, the noise does not disturb us, we are fast becoming soldiers, can sleep anywhere aad under all circum stances, can eat anything be it clean or dirty when on a march, if we halt it don't matter where it is the hoys tumble (town and in a few momenta are sound asleep, am almost sick for a letter for the Reg't has had no mail since leavit g Fort Lyon. It was reported that our mail was at City Point, we sent after it, every one is wish iug for letters, all are anxious to hear from home,they all keeping writing,nevertheles' Our fare has been rather harifon account of so ma eh moving. Many ot the boya complain of not having enough to eatf, which has been the fact, the loldifer'a life is a hard one and full of dangers and would you behold the quintessance of heroism, witness the conduct of the soU diers in the arduous campaign now going' on here and in Georgia. Those at home surrounded with comforts, cannot have the most faint realization of what it cost to be a soldier, and thosa soldiers who have become veterans should be support ed in comparative case by a grateful people, for surely there lot is a hard one, to allow the families of soldiers to suffer, as many have done all over our land, by those at home who are rolling in luxury and case is one of tho most outrageous stains on the American character and should be avenged by penury and want, I would rather be a toad and live upon tho foul air of a dungeon, than stand before the defenders of onr coun- irj as some ao-witn tneir ceUers well filled, while many a poor widow ia snfff ring for daily bread. Oh shame on such false patriotism. Jane ?5th, P. M. Our mail has come and such a lot of.-letters every one getting from one to a dozen. Don't allow yourself any trouble with tho slang of the butternuts, let them say what they will we will be home punctually at the expiration of tho 100 days when we will attend to them, hoping this will find you all well. I remain yours affectionately, , E. B. CAKE. Co. K. 142d Reg't O. N. G. Address, 2d Brigade, 3d Division, 10th Army Corps, Butler's Department, Ber- muda Hundred, Va. Conoilatory Manners. In families well ordered there is always one firm . sweot temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The essence of all fine breeding is in the gift otconcUiation. A man who possesses every other title to our rospeot except that of courtesy, ia in danger of forfeiting them all.- A rude manner renders its owner always liable to affront. He is never without dignity who avoids wounding the dignity of oth ers. Do all in your power to teach your children self-government. If a child i wionato, teach him by gentleness to curb hU'temper. If he is sulky charm him out by frank, good humor. If in dolent acoustom him to perform onerous duties with alacrity. If pride comes in to make obedience reluotant, subdue him by counsel or discipline. In sborgiv your children the habit of overcoming their besetting sins. BRIGHT AND CLOOIHY HOCBSV Ah 1 this beautiful world, I know not what to think of it. Sometimes it is all sunshine and glad ness, and heaven itself is not far off; and then changes suddenly, and is dark and sorrowful, and the clouds shut ont tho day. I0 the Eves of the saddest of us there aro bright days. Then come the gloomy hoars, when the fire will neither burn in our hearth, and all without and within is cold and dAk, , Every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oft times they call ft man cold when ho is onlj sad. Goodness of natnre is of all virtues and . dignities of the mind tho greatest, being the oharaoterof the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievons, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin. ' An humblt spire, pointing heavenward from an obscarej church speaks of man' nature, man's alignity, man's destiny, more eloquent than all the columns and arches of Grcce and Rome, the tuau soleums of Asto, or the pyramids of Egypt. ChannKj.f 0A HtJ'o follow, not more t'Ti in f,-: yoars of ag'i hearing a gontl'r;n i fothtr's ta!a make use of t'.a f r line, "An'Mnrst mu is tln i" ' 1 : of God," he! w it v 'i ' ' mother ws better a; p 3 .', .', ever tra-1.